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Wanjiru Wanjiru — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wan-JEE-roo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Kikuyu (Gikuyu and Mumbi's daughters)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Kikuyu)

A name that means "kikuyu (gikuyu and mumbi's daughters)".

Wanjiru is from the Kikuyu Wanjiru — one who is associated with the Anjiru clan — one of the nine daughters of the Kikuyu founding ancestors Gikuyu and Mumbi. Wanjiru is one of the Kikuyu feminine clan names — central to traditional Kikuyu cultural heritage. Kikuyu feminine clan name.

Kikuyu Anjiru clan daughter (Kenyan).

The name in its native script.

Wanjiru
Transliteration
Wanjiru
Pronunciation
/ wɑːnˈdʒiː.ruː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wanjiru stands.

Wanjiru does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Wanjirus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wanjiru
Kikuyu Anjiru clan founding daughter.

Names connected to Wanjiru.

The number behind Wanjiru.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wanjiru reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.